• Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    24 days ago
    1. Write an open source malware
    2. Freely publish it everywhere because everyone assumes someone checked it, because it’s open source, you know?
    3. ???
    4. Profit
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      23 days ago

      That’s the thing though if it’s open source and 99.9% don’t check that 0.1% checking it will be enough.

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        23 days ago

        By definition in order to have . 1% then the sample size must be greater than 1,000. The vast majority of open source projects will not get to this level.

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          23 days ago

          I think for a open source projects with such a low number of users, the first few users will definitely look further than “it’s open source”.